Refrigerating apparatus



Feb. 13, 1923. l,445,349. H. N. OAKLEY.

REFRIGERATNG APPARATUS.

HLED MAR. 21| 1919.

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Patented Feb. lf3, ll923.

HOLLIE N. OAKLEY, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

REFRIGERA'IING APPARATUS.

Application led March 21, 1919. Serial No. 284,135.

To fdl lzc/Lom t may concern.'

Bc it known that I', HoLLiE N. OAKLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Teire Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerating Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention relates to refrigeration and more particularly to refrigerating rooms for in storage, wherein keeping' meats, etc.

a portable receptacle containing ice is used for lowering the temperature of the air in the room or compartment in which such perishable articles are stored. Another object is to provide means carried with the portable ice receptaclev for circulating the chilled air.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as more fully described in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, on which like reference characters designate similar parts in the views, of which:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view showing the interior of a refrigerating room provided with a refrigerating apparatus constructed and arranged in accordance with my said invention.

Figure 2 a perspective View exterior of the ice container an ing apparatus, and

Figure 3 a detail vertical sectional view showing a somewhat modified construction.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent the refrigerating room; B the ice container and C the fan for inducing air circulation.

The. room A showing the d refrigerat- 85 may be any room appropriate for the purpose, but preferably constructed as a iefrigerating room provided with a door 10 for entrance` to arrange articles to be preserved therein` and with a door 11 through which the ice may be deposited into the ice container n he room is. of course, tted with devices for hanging. or otherwise containing, the articles to be preserved, which may be of any appropriate` construction and arrangementand are not shown.

The ice container B portable construction, so

is preferably of 5,5 that it may be moved from position room in orderV to ha best results can be to positi on within the ve it.located where the' obtained in view of the arrangement, or distribution of the articles in the room. It is formed of appropriate walls and has a grate 12 moun piiate supports 13 in its lower the ice is supported. Below th ted on approend on which e ice it is provided with an opening 14 in one wall over casing containing into a waste floor of the ld the fan C is of any appropriate coising an electr ic motor conpower by wires 18 pipe 15 leads from the bottom of pipe 16 leadroom. Said be a exible hose so as not to interfere with the movement of the container B from position t within the room.

In Figure 1 I container B ceiling of the room A, the top extends openings 17 are formed have shown t o the position he top of the open and slightly below the while in Figuren?) to said ceiling and air inlet throu'gh the walls near the top. In this figure the ice container is shown resting upon the floor of the refrigerating room and is stationary. p

Other modifications in the intended to remain construction and arrangement will readily suggest themselves.

In operation the room A meat, or other things to ice container B doors are closed. then turned on to d operates to draw at the top of the through the openi into the room and driving said cold the room to they rive the fa is filled with be preserved, the is filled with ice and the The electric current is n C, which the cold air through inlets ice chamber and expel it ng 20 in the fan casing near the bottom thereof, air across the bottom of opposite side, and at the same time inducing a draft of air into the upper end of the ice chamber, either through its open top, or throu'gh appropriate openings in the sides neai` the top, th

ice contained in the chamber containing the perishable th thus keeping e air in constant circulation around the and the room ings, thereby maintaining a low temperature in said room in a very efcient, convenient sive manner.

and inexpenaving thus ully described my said invention, Whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: i

A refrigerating apparatu's'comprising an enclosed room for the storage of meats, etc.

and formed with an ice-receiving opening and formed vvithan open top spaced fromA the ceiling of the room and adapted lwhen in position to register with the ice-receiving opening in said room ceiling and With air outlets in the lower portion thereof, and

`mv hand and seal at Terre ldred and nineteen.

having a casing mounted on 4one side Jfor housing a fan, a powver connection leading to' said fan for operating the same, and a lexiblepipe connected With the bottom of the ice container leading to a drain to afford means oi' conducting away the drip from the room regardless. of the position of the ice container, substantially as set ortli.

In Witness whereof, l have hereunto lset l v Haute, lndiana', this 19th day of March, A. D. nineteen hun- HOLLE N. OAKLEY [Ls] Witnesses:

vJ THOMPSON,

L. E. BAIN. 

